Google appears to be giving another big push to the Chrome operating system, known mostly for powering its Chromebook venture. Google and Samsung showed off a newly revamped Chromebook laptop and announced the Chromebox, a desktop...

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype was the company’s largest ever, and while most observers are reserving their final judgments, the move makes sense on a lot of levels. More than 170 million levels, actually...

That’s Google’s tagline for the new Chromebook, a Web-based laptop that runs on the high-powered Chrome OS, stores all software, documents and data online, and is due to go on sale in June. The Chromebooks represent a new...